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There isn't (to my knowledge) a large enterprise-supported version of Debian like Red Hat / CentOS. You could argue Ubuntu, but Ubuntu is significantly differen

There isn't (to my knowledge) a large enterprise-supported version of Debian like Red Hat / CentOS. You could argue Ubuntu, but Ubuntu is significantly different in focus to Debian, while Red Hat is almost identical to CentOS. Debian also, unjustly, suffers from its non-corporate image/reputation. Most of my professional sysadmin career has been spent managing RPM-based Linux distributions. The time I was asked to netboot and automatically configure multiple Ubuntu/Debian/Mint workstations, I found that there just wasn't the breadth of netboot/kickstart-type documentation available on Debian based systems. The smaller number of users doing that sort of thing led to less documentation. (I'm not saying that is definitively the case nowadays, it's just that lots of large scale deployments mean a lot of documentation and projects to support such activities)

devnonymous 8y ago
The relationship between Debian and Ubuntu is more akin to that between fedora and RHEL. Having a different focus than fedora, in fact, one could say almost radically different[1] hasn't stopped Redhat from contributing people, hardware and support to fedora -- leaving the volunteers to focus on contributions -- be it by code or as you point out documentation. Help with 'administrative' or grunt-work tasks goes a long way in large OSS projects and Ubuntu/Cannonical simply haven't stepped up where they should have. [1] for business vs for developers, cutting edge vs stability, ..etc
- bloopernova 8y ago
  Red Hat have been pretty smart with the whole Fedora/RHEL/CentOS progression. You get to mess with cutting edge stuff in Fedora (and Fedora Silverlight), and then take what works to fold into RHEL. Then you rebuild RHEL into CentOS so people use the free and binary compatible version of your product, which leads them to use the supported/sold version in production.

devnonymous 8y ago

The relationship between Debian and Ubuntu is more akin to that between fedora and RHEL. Having a different focus than fedora, in fact, one could say almost radically different[1] hasn't stopped Redhat from contributing people, hardware and support to fedora -- leaving the volunteers to focus on contributions -- be it by code or as you point out documentation. Help with 'administrative' or grunt-work tasks goes a long way in large OSS projects and Ubuntu/Cannonical simply haven't stepped up where they should have. [1] for business vs for developers, cutting edge vs stability, ..etc

bloopernova 8y ago
Red Hat have been pretty smart with the whole Fedora/RHEL/CentOS progression. You get to mess with cutting edge stuff in Fedora (and Fedora Silverlight), and then take what works to fold into RHEL. Then you rebuild RHEL into CentOS so people use the free and binary compatible version of your product, which leads them to use the supported/sold version in production.